Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W. H. S.

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Pausanias does not mention it in his 2nd century AD Description of Greece.

* Pausanias, Description of Greece

* Pausanias, Description of Greece

The 2nd-century Greek geographer Pausanias provides the greatest amount of information in the eighth book of his Description of Greece, where he discusses Lykaion ’ s mythological, historical, and physical characteristics in detail.

* Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W. H. S.

* Pausanias, Description of Greece, Books I-II, ( Loeb Classical Library ) translated by W. H. S. Jones ; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press ; London, William Heinemann Ltd. ( 1918 ).

#* Pausanias, " Description of Greece "

* Pausanias, Description of Greece, ( ed.

* Pausanias, Description of Greece, Book III.

* Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W. H. S.

Parthenius ' tale, based on the Hellenistic historian Phylarchus, was known to Pausanias, who recounted it in his Description of Greece ( 2nd century AD ).

* Pausanias, Description of Greece ix. 41. 2

* Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W. H. S.

* Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W. H. S.

* Pausanias, Description of Greece 10. 38. 1 ( 2nd c. AD )

* Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W. H. S.

* Pausanias, Pausanias Description of Greece with an English Translation by W. H. S.

Pausanias, in travelling around Greece, attributed to Daedalus numerous archaic wooden cult figures ( see xoana ) that impressed him: " All the works of this artist, though somewhat uncouth to look at, nevertheless have a touch of the divine in them.

A century later the travel writer Pausanias recorded a novel variant of the story, in which Narcissus falls in love with his twin sister rather than himself ( Guide to Greece, 9. 31. 7 ).

Pausanias recorded a few other religious sites in Greece devoted to Prometheus.

Their accomplishments defying the odds were some of the most inspiring of ancient Greek athletics and they served as inspiration to the Hellenic world for centuries, as Pausanias, the ancient traveller and writer indicates when he re-tells these stories in his narrative of his travels around Greece.

** The Battle of Plataea in Boeotia ends the Persian invasions of Greece as the Persian general Mardonius is routed by the Greeks under Pausanias, nephew of the former Spartan King, Leonidas I.

" Certainly, when Pausanias toured Greece about a century after Plutarch, he found Pan's shrines, sacred caves and sacred mountains still very much frequented.

On the Greek mainland, at Olympia, an archaic shrine with an inner cella sacred to the serpent-savior of the city ( Sosipolis ) and to Eileithyia was seen by the traveller Pausanias in the 2nd century AD ( Greece vi. 20. 1 – 3 ); in it a virgin-priestess cared for a serpent that was " fed " on honeyed barley-cakes and water — an offering suited to Demeter.

The legends about Adrastus and the two wars against Thebes have furnished ample materials for the epic as well as tragic poets of Greece, and some works of art relating to the stories about Adrastus are mentioned in Pausanias.

* two passages and some scattered remarks in Pausanias ( IX, 31. 3 – 6 and 38. 3 – 4 );

Many ancient critics also rejected Theogony ( e. g. Pausanias 9. 31. 3 ) but that seems rather perverse since Hesiod mentions himself by name in that poem ( line 22 ).

According to Pausanias the geographer ( 3. 19. 9 – 10 ): " The account of the Rhodians is different.

According to Pausanias ( 5. 14. 3 ) the Boeotian Asopus can produce the tallest reeds of any river.

Pausanias ( 2. 15. 3 ) mentions his daughter Nemea, eponym for the region of the same name ( possibly the mother of Archemorus in Aeschylus ' lost play Nemea ).

Britomartis was worshipped as Aphaea ( Pausanias, 2. 30. 3 ) primarily on the island of Aegina in Mycenaean times, where the temple " Athena Aphaea " was later located.

Most accounts, including Pausanias ( 10. 28 ) and later Dante's Inferno ( 3. 78 ), associate Charon with the swamps of the river Acheron.

According to Pausanias ( 3. 15. 7 ) the Lacedaemonians believed that by chaining up Enyalius they would prevent the god from deserting Sparta.

Pausanias also mentions at 3. 14. 9 and 3. 20. 2 that puppies were sacrificed to Enyalius in Sparta.

Pausanias ( 2. 21. 3 ) gives yet another name, mentioning Tyrsenus, son of Heracles by " the Lydian woman ", by whom Pausanias presumably means Omphale.

The intact Erechtheum was extensively described by the Roman geographer Pausanias ( 1. 26. 5-27. 3 ), writing a century after it had been restored in the 1st century AD.

In June 3, they decided to go horseback riding to the nearby village of Chaeronea using Pausanias ' Description of Greece as a guidebook.

* Nicostratus of Heraea, Arcadia, son of Xenoclides, wrestler, a victor at the ancient Olympic Games ( according to Pausanias ' Description of Greece, 6. 3. 11 )

* Nicostratus of Argivia, who instituted a custom of throwing torches into a pit in honour of Persephone ( according to Pausanias ' Description of Greece, 2. 22. 3 )

( Pausanias 10. 12. 3 )

* Pausanias, Description of Greece, ( Loeb Classical Library ) translated by W. H. S. Jones ; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press ; London, William Heinemann Ltd. ( 1918 ); Vol 2, Books III – V, ISBN 0-674-99207-5 ; Vol 3, Books VI – VIII. 21, ISBN 0-674-99300-4.